Monday, June 05, 2006

The first step up the ladder

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This video puts it in simple terms. Literacy and education should lead to a better life.
Friday, May 19, 2006

Clinical Economics (pdf)

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This article by Jeffrey Sachs brought tears to my eyes. It is providing a positive way forward with the issue of poverty. He includes what h...
Monday, May 15, 2006

One person can always make a difference

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This is a good video for many reasons; I like the positive content and presenation, I like its alignment with empowering women, I like its f...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Critical technology has two perspectives

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The internal classroom perspective where both student and teacher must be critical of the use of all technology. They must always be asking ...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Critical Pedagogy by Barry Kanpol

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In my journey to deepen my understanding of Critical Pedagogy I have read the book Critical Pedagogy by Barry Kanpol. An excellent book with...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Critical technology being implemented (pdf)

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My reading of things related to what I am calling "Critical Technology" continues. My interest in the $100 laptop also continues...
Saturday, April 22, 2006

Pedagogy of Curiosity

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A discussion between Paulo Freire and Seymour Papert regarding the future of school. So much good stuff within this discussion between thes...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Critical Technologists

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In my previous post I spoke to the idea of teachers well versed in the critical technology approach. It would seem that the GIIP has alrea...

Critical Technology Defined

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After some reflection I am going to create my first statement defining Critical Technology as I believe it to be. Fundamentally it will be b...
Saturday, April 08, 2006

SUMMARY PAPER

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This podcast summarizes the previous 18 posts. To view the transcript of this podcast visit this sites academic companion blog.

$100 laptop, microfinance, constructivism and critical pedagogy

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Offer $100.00 laptops to economically resiliant microfinanced families with children available for education and combine that with construct...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

UN Millenium Goals

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Two of the UN Millenium Goals have good alignment with the introduction of the $100 laptops goal of a laptop for every child in the next fi...

Over 30 million served

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Since its inception the microfinance approach to helping people out of poverty has served between 30 and 50 million people . All these small...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

A closer look at the $100 laptop

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Microfinance programs are available

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All the places targeted to pilot the $100 laptop already have established microfinance programs . These locations would have the required fi...

Community Source

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How will all the software and curriculum get built? To begin with the operating system is based upon the open source offering of Linux, ther...

$100 laptop isn't without critics

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The $100 laptop initiative doesn't come without its critics. The criticism falls into four main areas; 1) People need to eat first 2) Ho...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Microfinance works

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The most passionate claims always lead back to educating their children. Fortunately, education is seen as one of the keys to ending povert...

Ending poverty has become pop culture

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With all the media exposure and all the pop stars getting involved the attainment of ending poverty may be more real now than ever before.
Monday, April 03, 2006

Based upon constructivist methods

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The MIT labs have stressed the importance of using constructivist ( Bender , 2006) methods when building cirriculum for the $100 laptops. It...